You can see the difference between professional and amateur communication in the graphics created for the Consensus Project website / sharing (clean, uncluttered, easy to read, simple language and message) compared to the hash of a slide created
by the climate denier group (cluttered, sizing and backgrounds make it difficult to read, white text on black background!
Coincidentally, a slideshow
by a climate denier group was released just days before the Yale / GMU study, attacking the use of pie - charts to communicate the consensus:
Not exact matches
The formation of the new fringe ECR
group in 2010, memorably described
by Nick Clegg as «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and
climate - change
deniers,» isolated the Conservatives and dealt a major blow to Britain's influence in Europe.
Republicans often seem comfortable shrugging off the
climate issue, noting that GOP candidates cruised to victory in the midterm elections last year despite heavy spending by outside groups like Tom Steyer's NextGen Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.
climate issue, noting that GOP candidates cruised to victory in the midterm elections last year despite heavy spending
by outside
groups like Tom Steyer's NextGen
Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.
Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «
deniers.»
Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party
groups and super PACs funded
by the fossil - fuel industry who see
climate change as a false threat concocted
by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet
group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or
deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.
«Muller is a long - standing, colorful critic of prevailing
climate science, and the Berkeley project was heavily funded
by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G. Koch, has a considerable history of backing
groups that
deny climate change.»
A
group of scientists, including myself, have consequently decided that we must speak out about the irreparable harm that would be done
by a
climate change -
denying, anti-science-driven Trump presidency.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S.
climate - change policy,
groups that
deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to
deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response
by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the
groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on
climate - related efforts.»
The Blacklist Paper, authored
by Stephen Schneider et al, had as its intention the separation of
climate scientists into two
groups — one they called «credible», based on the number of publications and citations of those publications, and one called «
climate deniers», which would be less credible because the way they set up the analysis guaranteed they would have fewer publications and citations.
Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a
group run
by climate change
denier Nigel Lawson.
When pressed, Oliver was not able to identify which scientists he was using as a source, La Pressereported, but his staff pointed to an article
by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian writer and infamous
climate - change skeptic and
denier, and the founder and executive director of Energy Probe, an environmental policy organization and fossil fuel lobbyist
group.
Written
by Gary Cook, crossposted from Greenpeace's The EnvironmentaLIST: Google, other IT companies should end support for
climate denying groups like ALEC
Robert Balling, Idso's mentor, was one of the leading scientists paid
by the Greening Earth Society, the
climate science -
denying front
group created
by the Western Fuels Association, one of the first and earliest coal industry
groups funding the denial of
climate change.
Howard Hayden is listed as a «Founding Member» of
group named
Climate Exit (Clexit) led by climate change denier Christopher Mo
Climate Exit (Clexit) led
by climate change denier Christopher Mo
climate change
denier Christopher Monckton.
The above «
Climate of Doubt» program qualifies as such with its blatant insinuation about skeptics corrupted by illicit money, as does its prior 2008 program «Heat», in which only unidentified skeptic scientists were shown while the narrator said «Not only have big oil companies not invested much in renewables, but for years they were among the largest contributors to so - called climate change denier groups, groups like the Heartland Institute, the organizer of this 2008 convention.
Climate of Doubt» program qualifies as such with its blatant insinuation about skeptics corrupted
by illicit money, as does its prior 2008 program «Heat», in which only unidentified skeptic scientists were shown while the narrator said «Not only have big oil companies not invested much in renewables, but for years they were among the largest contributors to so - called
climate change denier groups, groups like the Heartland Institute, the organizer of this 2008 convention.
climate change
denier groups,
groups like the Heartland Institute, the organizer of this 2008 convention.»
By 2010, the dark money amounted to $ 118m distributed to 102 thinktanks or action
groups which have a record of
denying the existence of a human factor in
climate change, or opposing environmental regulations.
SPPI was founded in mid-2007 with a strong focus on global warming skepticism, and draws heavily on papers published
by climate change science
denier Christopher Monckton who was the editor of the SPPI's «Monthly CO2 Report,» (last published in January of 2011) has had many of his papers published with SPPI, and is also listed as the
group's «Chief Policy Advisor.»
After consistent campaigning
by Greenpeace through ExxonSecrets, ExxonMobil was forced, in 2006, to drop funding to some of its key allies in the campaign to
deny climate science and delay policy action The Competitive Enterprise Institute was the key
group dropped — it had received $ 2.2 million fromExxonMobil since 1998, more than any other thinktank.
Willie Soon is listed as a «Founding Member» of
group named
Climate Exit (Clexit) led by climate change denier Christopher Mo
Climate Exit (Clexit) led
by climate change denier Christopher Mo
climate change
denier Christopher Monckton.
Representative Jim Bridenstine, President Trump's choice to direct NASA, has been branded a
climate denier by the far - left group Climate Hawks Vote, a PAC that has environmental radical Bill McKibben and ex-communist Van Jones on its advisory
climate denier by the far - left
group Climate Hawks Vote, a PAC that has environmental radical Bill McKibben and ex-communist Van Jones on its advisory
Climate Hawks Vote, a PAC that has environmental radical Bill McKibben and ex-communist Van Jones on its advisory board.
Sebastian Luning is listed as a «Founding Member» of
group named
Climate Exit (Clexit) led by climate change denier Christopher Mo
Climate Exit (Clexit) led
by climate change denier Christopher Mo
climate change
denier Christopher Monckton.
In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent
group of global
climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held
by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury
denied to renewable energy experts.